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From: osynw@gemini.oscs.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Subject: Tar handling special devices (Was Re: Does anybody have a complete tar.Z file of filesystem?)
Message-ID: <1993Jan30.234734.12067@coe.montana.edu>
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References: <wagner.985.728099462@main.mndly.umn.edu> <1993Jan29.161226.966@sci34hub.sci.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1993 23:47:34 GMT
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In article <1993Jan29.161226.966@sci34hub.sci.com> gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston) writes:
>Considering that tar doesn't handle the device entries in /dev/*, you're
>probably not going to find any such image.

Huh??  What *nix have you been using? 

Tar has been able to handle character/block special devices for
as long as I can remember.

Script started on Sat Jan 30 16:41:13 1993
root:/dev # pwd
/dev
root:/dev # ls -al *wd1*
crw-r-----    1 root       3,   8 Jul 22  1992 rwd1a
crw-r-----    1 root       3,   9 Jul 22  1992 rwd1b
crw-r-----    1 root       3,  10 Jul 22  1992 rwd1c
crw-r-----    1 root       3,  11 Jul 22  1992 rwd1d
crw-r-----    1 root       3,  12 Jul 22  1992 rwd1e
crw-r-----    1 root       3,  13 Jul 22  1992 rwd1f
crw-r-----    1 root       3,  14 Jul 22  1992 rwd1g
crw-r-----    1 root       3,  15 Jul 22  1992 rwd1h
brw-r-----    1 root       0,   8 Jul 22  1992 wd1a
brw-r-----    1 root       0,   9 Jul 22  1992 wd1b
brw-r-----    1 root       0,  10 Jul 22  1992 wd1c
brw-r-----    1 root       0,  11 Jul 22  1992 wd1d
brw-r-----    1 root       0,  12 Jul 22  1992 wd1e
brw-r-----    1 root       0,  13 Jul 22  1992 wd1f
brw-r-----    1 root       0,  14 Jul 22  1992 wd1g
brw-r-----    1 root       0,  15 Jul 22  1992 wd1h
root:/dev # tar cf /tmp/wd1_dev.tar *wd1*
root:/dev # cd /tmp
root:/tmp # mki[Kdir dev
root:/tmp # cd dev
root:/tmp/dev # tar xf /tmp/wd1_dev.tar
root:/tmp/dev # ls -al *wd1*
crw-r-----    1 root       3,   8 Jul 22  1992 rwd1a
crw-r-----    1 root       3,   9 Jul 22  1992 rwd1b
crw-r-----    1 root       3,  10 Jul 22  1992 rwd1c
crw-r-----    1 root       3,  11 Jul 22  1992 rwd1d
crw-r-----    1 root       3,  12 Jul 22  1992 rwd1e
crw-r-----    1 root       3,  13 Jul 22  1992 rwd1f
crw-r-----    1 root       3,  14 Jul 22  1992 rwd1g
crw-r-----    1 root       3,  15 Jul 22  1992 rwd1h
brw-r-----    1 root       0,   8 Jul 22  1992 wd1a
brw-r-----    1 root       0,   9 Jul 22  1992 wd1b
brw-r-----    1 root       0,  10 Jul 22  1992 wd1c
brw-r-----    1 root       0,  11 Jul 22  1992 wd1d
brw-r-----    1 root       0,  12 Jul 22  1992 wd1e
brw-r-----    1 root       0,  13 Jul 22  1992 wd1f
brw-r-----    1 root       0,  14 Jul 22  1992 wd1g
brw-r-----    1 root       0,  15 Jul 22  1992 wd1h
root:/tmp/dev # 
Script done on Sat Jan 30 16:41:54 1993
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